Timothy J. Kelly

Timothy James Kelly (21 March 1969-) was a US District Judge for the District of Columbia from 8 September 2017, succeeding Rosemary M. Collyer.

Biography
Timothy James Kelly was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1969, and he spent a decade as a federal prosecutor before working as a trial attorney. In 2017, President Donald Trump successfully nominated him to serve as a district judge in Washington DC, and he notably decided the case of CNN v. Trump on 16 November 2018 by ruling that Trump's barring of CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta from the White House violated his first and fifth amendment rights.